That's why they do it that way for commercial applications.I never buy the cheap junk they sell at Home Depot or anywhere else.

These highly-specialized professionals are not cheap. 

A cheap house may look great on paper, but the reality is far from that. 

It's cheap, it's near where we live, it needs to be rehabbed, it's the worst house on the block with a ton of potential.

The biggest issue for Baltimore and frankly any rust belt city is the rise of remote work, Baltimore is cheap for a major job center, but it’s not that cheap period, pretty much any area west of Frederick county or east of the bay bridge has ample housing stock for sub 300k and imo a better quality of life, so the one thing that Baltimore has going for it pre-pandemic which was a pretty solid mix of Fortune 500 companies located downtown has been significantly reduced & downtown is a ghostown now.

My thought is that because they ask for no deposit and the first month free that they will place a renter for cheap really quick and then disappear before ever making a payment to you.

Every other time I've lived somewhere outside of home, I've shared with a roommate or rented a cheap bedroom in someone else's house (like $500-600/mo vs $1200+ for 1 BR 1 BA) and saved/invested the difference.In 2016, I moved to a new state, married the love of my life and we're expecting our first baby in late May.

The houses surrounding campus were really cheap.

I was looking to get my feet wet with a cheap rental property so I could learn.

By the time you get a couple properties under your belt, you'll be much smarter and in a better position to do more creative investing.Be careful with those cheap Ohio properties.